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A worker died when a six-metre steel machine landed on top of him
after it was dislodged from overhead brackets at a factory in East
Yorkshire.

Ronald Wood, 59, from Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, was struck on the head
by the steel vacuum lifter, which weighed two-thirds of a tonne, when it
was knocked from its mountings by a trailer being towed out of the
Montracon factory.

Montracon Ltd., registered at Carr Hill, Doncaster, South Yorkshire,
pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to two breaches of Health and
Safety legislation. It was fined a total of £100,000 and ordered to pay
£33,030 in costs.